[CentOS] New to Centos

Thu Nov 18 19:21:30 UTC 2010
Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net>

On 18/11/2010 20:37, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Johan Scheepers<johansche at telkomsa.net>  wrote:
>    
>> Good day,
>>
>> I would like to first test and then use centos 5.5.
>>
>> I downloaded centos 5.5 x86_64 live CD.
>>
>> Problem...screen resolution only 800x600.
>>
>> In fedora 14   it is 1024x768,  same in debian squeeze and opensuse11.3.
>>
>> Could there be a way to increase the resolution? in either i386 or x86_64.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Regards
>> Johan
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> What graphics card&  monitor do you have?
>
>    
In debian this...

johan at Johan:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 
771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10)

johan at Johan:~$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions
   dimensions:    1024x768 pixels (339x203 millimeters)

Ok, I did look into system-monitors and only 800x600 was available.
Remember this is a live CD x86_64.

Thanks
Johan